Web control, crime patrol or Real pawns in cybercrime
The HinduJust off the Miyapur-Gachibowli main road in the western part of Hyderabad, an area where the who’s who of the tech city’s IT companies live, is a small lane. Gift card bait Explaining the scam, Police Commissioner of Cyberabad, Stephen Raveendra said that ‘employees’ were placing Voice over Internet Protocol calls to unsuspecting people in the U.S. They would create panic by stating that a parcel was found in their name containing suspicious substances”Stephen Raveendra Police Commissioner of Cyberabad “They were collecting personal data of people from leads generating portals and placing VOIP calls. Speaking about his role, he said, “My job was to create an Excel sheet of information of U.S.-based customers, and I was being trained to gather these ‘leads’. I was later going to be trained to make cold calls and talk to ‘customers’ before transferring the calls to my seniors.” Another employee, Priyanka, 29, from Mumbai, Maharashtra, said that she worked for about three weeks until they shut shop after the raid.
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